Monday, April 25, 2016

Informative Spam.

This comment on a recent post (also reproduced below) is clearly spam, but seemed worth a post of its own. Do such services truly exist, I wonder, and, if so, are they scam as well as spam, or is the misery of grading for naught, as students with the money and the right connections will simply have the grades over which we labored changed by their friendly (global) neighborhood hacker? Maybe this is a way to save oh-so-busy Dean Sprocket some work?

Permit me to share my testimony on this platform. I didn't do well in my finals.Mike introduced me to some hacker demonteco@outlook.com. lo and behold this guy got me up to a GPA of 3.90. He can change grades also, database hack, clearing of criminal records, credit, bank transfer and all forms of hack

They're missing a great opportunity. Think of it. They could market to us professors, to go in and change our 8:00am classes to 11:00am, reduce enrollment in our 25 student composition courses to 15, and move money from administrative salaries to professorial ones. At that point, we might as well just hire them as our registrar.

What Was This?

College Misery was a dysfunctional group blog where professors got the chance to release some of the frustration that built up while tending to student snowflakes, helicopter parents, money mad Deans, envious colleagues, and churlish chairpeople.

Our parent site, Rate Your Students, started in 2005, and we continued that mission beginning in 2010. Ben at Academic Water Torture and Kimmie at The Apoplectic Mizery Maker both ran support blogs during periods when this blog had died.